Bernard's Paris apartment is sort of like an airline terminal. The arrivals and departures are all carefully scheduled.

That's the premise of Marc Camoletti's farce "Boeing-Boeing," which on Friday, Oct. 5 takes over the Encore Theatre. The production runs weekends through Oct. 14.

Those arrivals and departures, all carefully orchestrated by American bachelor Bernard, are the three international air hostesses — or stewardesses, or flight attendants — he's dating, and keeping them all secret from one another.

"It's a classic door-slamming farce," said director Ali Malingen, a veteran community theater actor making her directorial debut. "It's a whole lot of fun."

The "door-slamming farce," of course, is a tried-and-true comic stage offering. With plays such as "Noises Off" and "Moon Over Buffalo" as examples, audiences can expect fast-paced dialogue and lots of physical humor.

"Boeing-Boeing," which debuted in London in 1962 and on Broadway three years later, is about Bernard's idyllic three-girls-for-every-boy existence crashing down.

Timmy Reveles plays Bernard, who has the best of all worlds — or, more accurately, two continents — with his alternating girlfriends. They are American Gloria (Petra Carter), Italian Gabriella (Cadynn Leigh) and German Gretchen (Jaimie Richmond). With the help of his housekeeper, Berthe (Kylee Robinson), he fits the three women's schedules like clockwork.

Until, that is, his college buddy Robert (Richard Garibay), oblivious to Bernard's arrangements, comes to visit. Worse still, Boeing's fast new jetliner throws flight schedules for a loop — good news for air travelers, bad news for Bernard, who has a harder and harder time keeping his affairs secret and separated.

Complicating matters even more: A huge North Atlantic storm system conspire to bring all three ladies to the apartment simultaneously, wreaking havoc on Bernard’s plans.

All the comic mayhem has been a lot of hard work for the small cast, the actors said.

"It's true about the old saying that comedy is harder than drama," Carter said. "Timing is so important, especially with this play with so many people going off and on stage all the time."